The senior has played multiple positions, for three different coaches, in first-round losses and state championship games and with an evolving sense of responsibility since taking the field as a seventh-grader in 2008.

"I probably preferred it more when I was in seventh grade," she said. "When I got on the team, I wasn't expecting to do anything but sit on the bench and play (junior varsity), and my first game, they put me in left field, and I feel like I played with no care once I got out there.

"I just did what my team needed me to do. Now, there's a lot more stress, because this is it. I was the baby back then, but I guess they need more now."

Guillot has fulfilled those heightened expectations with a .600 average, 13 doubles and 34 runs among her long list of team-high statistics.

Coach Kirk Delatte also praised her defense in center field after primarily catching in seventh and eighth grade and playing shortstop the past three seasons.

But Delatte mentions the veteran's impact on the players around her before her individual offensive or defensive contributions.

As goes Guillot, so go the Bulldogs, Delatte said.

For better or, at rare times, for worse.

"She's just an outstanding leader — not only with her words, but with her actions," the coach said. "The kids follow her. Actually, she's had some struggles a bit at the plate, and I think it's kind of rubbed off on some of the others."

Ascension Catholic's offense has trailed off some from a batting performance earlier in the season Delatte said was as strong as he'd seen in his four years back leading the program.

The No. 7 Bulldogs (20-6) finished the regular season with a 9.5-run scoring average, although they scored just eight total during their final three contests, including two losses.

Delatte expects that tide to reverse — he hopes as early as Monday's playoff opener with No. 26 Delhi Charter (14-15) — and his faith in Guillot is among the chief reasons.

"She's working hard right now," the coach said. "She's hungry, and I know she's not going to let us down. She'll put the rest of the team on her shoulders if she needs to."

Guillot consistently uses her experience to teach her younger teammates and at times even her coaches, said Delatte, who began his current tenure as head coach during the standout's freshman season.

That duo helped lead Ascension Catholic to the 2009 state championship, where it fell to Ouachita Christian, 3-1.

For all Guillot's experiences, that run marks the closest she has come to a title — part of the reason for this season's pressure as her career winds down.

"(A championship) is the No. 1 thing on my mind right now," she said. "We've had a few talks with (the younger players) and told 'em we can't slack off. The two other seniors and myself have told 'em it's time to suck it up and give it all we've got because you don't know when you'll get another chance."

Delatte insists the Bulldogs can't take anything lightly the rest of the way, including Delhi Charter and its losing record.

That experience and lesson is one of which not even Guillot and the coaches have to remind the younger Bulldogs.

"We've got to not let our guard down, and hopefully we can learn from last year," Delatte said. "The good thing about it is 14 out of the 17 kids on this years team experience that, so they've been there."